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Shaft's Big Score! is a american film of genre Action directed by Gordon Parks released in USA on 8 june 1972 with Richard Roundtree

Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

Shaft's Big Score!
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Released in USA 8 june 1972
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Action,    Adventure,    Crime
Rating60% 3.0008653.0008653.0008653.0008653.000865

Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American action film starring Richard Roundtree as the private detective John Shaft. Directed by Gordon Parks, This is the second film in the trilogy. Ernest Tidyman once more supplied the screenplay. The first film's composer Isaac Hayes was unavailable, so Parks, the returning director, did the score himself. The film was produced on a budget of $1,978,000.

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While New York is never at a loss for criminal activity, things take a turn for the worse when the corrupt co-owner of a funeral parlor and insurance agency kills his partner, a personal friend of John Shaft, only to discover that the money he was planning to steal to pay his gambling debts is missing. He makes a deal with the mobster he owes (Joseph Mascolo) to split the business but also makes the same deal with crime lord Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn). The bullets start flying when the hoods find they've been played against each other, and Shaft is forced to clean up the mess.

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